Anne Marie Lofaso, Associate Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, explores the merits of teaching "intelligent design" in public school science classes. The paper is particularly timely as officials from Pennsylvania to Kansas address the legal and policy issues presented by the teaching of intelligent design. In her analysis, Professor Lofaso examines the scientific and legal frameworks that govern the intelligent design debate. She argues that intelligent design does not meet the longstanding definition of science and that there is consequently no valid secular purpose in teaching it in public school science classes. Rather, she argues, the purpose of teaching intelligent design as science is to advance the religious views of its proponents, which would violate the Establishment Clause.